In some parts of the world, blogging is still very much a revolutionary activity: Pakistani blogger Aasim Saeed who went missing earlier this month has been found but has quickly left the country fearing for his life, his family said…

We are clearly living in interesting times. There are political moves afoot in the student union at City, University of London (where I lecture), to adopt the Stop Funding Hate approach (see post passim). That’s led to a student…

Stop Stop Funding Hate, says Brendan O’Neill for The Spectator: SFH’s agitation to pull ads from newspapers is not some simple, good, happy-clappy act of consumer caring. It’s the attempted use of financial power to whack tabloid…

Fascinating interview with Monika Bickert, the head of global policy for Facebook: We use technology to help us triage reports, and we also use Microsoft’s Photo DNA to help us prevent images of child exploitation from being uploaded to…

Well, it’s looking like the judgement that gives people the “right to be forgotten” is rapidly becoming the “right to censor”. In the last 24 hours I’ve seen these: A blog post from Robert Peston has been “forgotten”…